Tapered Thread Question

[NoShopSkills]

not a bad idea, but for the weight consideration. The folks at Carbon Cub (my plane is a plans built model that is similar, but not exact) have a motto, "Every gram has a purpose". the tube affair as drawn by the designer is, believe it or not, a long proven standard used in traditional (tail wheeled) landing gear airplanes. I will use the tube and pipe thread design, but I like Joshua's tabbed washer suggestion. I'll have to look at a factory production airplane of similar weight and see if they use a tabbed washer. I can't remember since it's been well over a year since I've re-packed the bearings on the Cessnas.

 

[kingmt01]

Can we get more pictures of the build. This looks really interesting.

 

[NoShopSkills]

Might not be kosher for me to redirect you to a different topical forum, but here's a link to where I'll be posting progress from now on. I will still be here for plenty of hand holding on the machining end from all of you fine folks!

http://www.homebuiltairplanes.com/f...new-guy-has-anyone-ever-built-christavia.html

Here's a video of my latest work last week:

 

[kingmt01]

Very cool project. Thanks for the picture & video.